TURKS CONVERGING ON BRITISH.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15192, 12 April 1917, Page 3

TURKS CONVERGING ON BRITISH.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, April 10. Mesopotamia official,—The Turks, who were reported on the 6th inst. to be retiring towards Kifri, are now contemplating a converging movement, in conjunction with the Turks on the left bank of the Tigris, against te hßritishHOliA andd and against the British between the Shat-el-Adhaim and the Diala Rivers, in the meantime holding up the Russians on the upper reaches of the Diala. Our troops were reported on the Bth to be in possession of the left bank of the Shat-el-Adhaim. We captured Belad Harbe station, north-north-west of Bagdad.